I did as you say: my failed attempt was with Oracle client runtime libraries only. I went back and installed OCI and Oracle Programmer (aka Pro*C) and the installation went great. I did not even have to uninstall the client libs, Universal Installer just added the two missing components.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Jardine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:01 AM Subject: Re: Trouble Installing DBD::Oracle on Red Hat 8 > Tony Adolph wrote: > > > Hi Garry, > > > > Install "the lot" has fixed the problem, thanks. > > > > But, and there always a but. We dont want to put the full Oracle 9.2 on > > the clients. Do you know if it is possible to unistall the rdbms packages > > and still have the DBI / DBD working? > > I can't answer for Red Hat. I am using Solaris. I have DBD::Oracle and > Oracle::OCI workign on a systme which does not have RDBMS installed. > It only has Oracle 9i client installed. The default clinet install does > not install enough - it does not installe the OCI header files. You > need to do a custom install and install at least > > Oracle Call Interfaces > > You may need also > > Oracle Programmer > > I am not sure about the latter. I installed it for other reasons. > > >
